Introduction

The IBM® Spectrum Virtualize Family Storage Replication Adapter (SRA) is a software add-on that integrates with the VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) solution to run failovers together with supported storage systems.

The IBM Spectrum Virtualize Family SRA extends SRM capabilities and uses replication and mirroring as part of the SRM comprehensive Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) solution.

VMware administrators can automate the failover of storage systems at the protected (primary) SRM site to a recovery (secondary) SRM site. Immediately upon a failover, the VMware ESX/ESXi servers at the recovery SRM site initiate the replicated datastores on the mirrored volumes of the recovery storage system.

When the protected site is back online, you can run failback from the recovery site to the protected site by clicking Reprotect in the SRM.

Note: The supported storage systems for the Spectrum Virtualize Family SRA are listed in the release notes, and are referred throughout the documentation as Spectrum Virtualize Family, storage systems, or Spectrum Virtualize software.